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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
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It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.
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The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
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There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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History is not was, it is.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
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Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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